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 The wild beast has ten horns on its seven heads. Perhaps four heads had one horn each and three heads two horns each.  Moreover,  it had ten diadems or its  horns.  In the book of Daniel, fearsome beasts are described, and the numbering of their horns  is to interpreted literally. For example,  the two horns on a ram represented a world empire made up of two partners, Media and Persia, while the four horns on  goat represented  the four coexisting empires that grew out of Alexander the Great's Greek  empire. (Daniel 8:3, 8, 20-22)  On the beast that John saw, however, the numbering of the ten horns  appears to be symbolic. (Compare Daniel 7:24; Revelation 17:12)  They represent the completeness of sovereign states making up  entire political organization of Satan.  All these horns are violent and aggressive, but as indicated by the seven heads, headship, resides to only  one wold power at a time.  Similarly,  the ten diadems indicate that all  sovereign states wold exercise ruling power simutaneously  with the domiant state, or world power, of that time. 

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